54 THE NATUEALIST IN BBEMUDA. 



January, 1848, in immature plumage. Colonel Drummond 

 shot two near St. George's on the 4th of February following ; 

 one, in adult plumage ; the other, m the plumage of the 

 young. I shot another on the 11th of 'February, 1848, at 

 Spanish Point, and several appeared for a few days in 

 March, 1849, in Hamilton Water. 



Bonaparte's Gull (i. Bonapartii). I noticed this little 

 gull in the Great Sound, on the 23rd of January, 1849, and 

 succeeded in shooting it on the 27th of January during a 

 strong northerly gale. I saw one on the 15th of December, 

 1849, and another was killed by some one on the 24th of 

 February, 1850, which last I did not get till the 27th of the 

 same month, then too far gone for preservation. 



Ambeican Gull (L. zonorhynchus). Eare ; one specimen 

 only having been killed by myself near the Dockyard, 

 Ireland Island, on the 1st of January, 1849, during a gale 

 from the north-west. 



Westeen Gull (L. occidentalis). A few specimens have 

 been killed; the first, by myself on Darr ell's Island, Novem- 

 ber I7th, 1847 ; another, 12th January, 1848, both in their 

 brown winter plumage. One or two others were shot near 

 St. George's. I have seen them on several occasions sitting 

 on the rocks at Spanish Point, The Ferry, Pearl Island, and 

 St. David's Head. 



Heeeing Gull (L. argentatus), I first noticed some of 

 these guHs sitting on Long Bird Island, February 23rd, 1848, 

 when I killed four of them, and on the 19th of March 

 following, a few others were obtained. 



Wandeeing Sheaewatee (Puffinus cinereus.) Mr. Hurdis 

 sends me the following note : " Mr. Downes, of the Com- 

 missariat, presented me with a living specimen found lying 



